As we resist this racist system
We will persist with courage in our hearts
And as we build, build, build with each other ---we will grow and we will thrive 

As we resist this racist system
Tho we persist with rage in our hearts
Oh we will breathe, breathe, breathe with each other -- and we’ll remember, we are still alive

As we resist this racist system
We will persist with joy in our hearts
And as we build, build, build with each other --- we’ll let truth and justice be our guide

As we resist this racist system
Tho we persist with grief in our hearts
Oh we will breathe, breathe, breathe with each other --- and we’ll remember, we are still alive


Lyrics and music: Koach Baruch Frazier | Vocals: Koach Baruch Frazier and Batya Levine

As We Resist

Sheet music for this new melody and words of explanation by Deborah Sacks Mintz will be included in Hadar's 5782 Pesach Reader. Download a copy here: https://www.hadar.org/torah-resource/pesach-reader-5782

Text: Vayehi Bachatzi HaLayla - Pesach piyyut by Yannai (6th Century)
Melody: Deborah Sacks Mintz

Singers:
Deborah Sacks Mintz
Chava Mirel
Joey Weisenberg

Recorded November 2021 at the Germantown Jewish Centre
Mastered by Don Godwin

Karev Yom - Deborah Sacks Mintz

Tu B'shvat Nign

Ozi v'zimrat yah vayihi li lishua 
My strength and the divine song will be my deliverance (Psalm 118:14, Exodus 15:2) 

A prayer for courage, strength, and surrender as we navigate these trying times.
lyrics
Ozi v'zimrat yah vayihi li lishua 

Claim your place in the fabric of creation 
Know your face as the face of the divine 
This is our time, we've come to unwind 
the tangled patterns of history. 
Lifetimes fall and rise 
surrendering to the Mystery. 

Don't stop now, don't turn back 
It's just beginning to flow 
Let go and see what your body knows 
You were made for this, made for this 
Open wide and shed your skin 
Through fire we begin again
credits
released September 14, 2017 
Composed by Cedar Ranney 
Arranged by Cedar Ranney & Madhu Anziani 
Vocals: Cedar Ranney & Madhu Anziani 
Percussion: Madhu Anziani 
Produced by Madhu Anziani 
Hebrew Lyrics: Psalm 118:14, Exodus 15:2 

With deep gratitude to my bright and well ancestors, Kohenet community and beyond, and my teachers Taya Shere and Ibrahim Baba. Thanks to Rabbi Shefa Gold for inspiration and Madhu Anziani for collaboration, allyship and recording.

Ozi V'zimrat Yah ft. Madhu Anziani

Negro Spiritual reinterpreted by Koach Baruch Frazier

Be With Me by Koach Baruch Frazier

For Pittsburgh and Squirrel Hill. In service of our healing and collective freedom in the midst of intense white nationalist violence in the form of transphobia, racism, sexism, and anti-semitism.  As a reminder that more police and "security" do not make us safer, especially for those of us who hold multiple targeted identities.  We will only win when we are all together.

Lyrics:
we are a beautiful people
though our hearts are broken
we sing for justice, and wholeness

we are a beautiful people
though our hearts are broken
we know that we are not alone
right here we are home

you have taken a universe
you have taken a mountain
our voices echo in the hills

they will not divide us
we will not abide this
we know that together we'll be free
mourning tragedy
our safety is with each other

we are a beautiful people
though our hearts are broken
we sing for justice, and wholeness

we are a beautiful people
though our hearts are broken
we know that we are not alone
right here we are home

toch emunei am segulah (repeated)

hebrew translation: 
from lecha dodi, a prayer greeting shabbes:
among those who hold faith, a treasured nation

gratitude to Chana Rusanov for hebrew lyrics and translation.
gratitude for Rachel Beck for leading me on my own journey against anti-semitism for seven years now
gratitude for Dove Kent, JFREJ, and so so many other brilliant teachers leading us towards solidarity
gratitude for our allies who take the time and effort to see the realities of systemic anti-semitism
gratitude for life, for existence, and the capacity to heal.

Aly Halpert's Album

Beautiful People (Toch Emunei)

Elul: Songs for Turning

Elul Niggun by Aly Halpert

Mishpacha Nigun (Molly Bajgot & Sol Yael Weiss)

Origin:
Words from morning liturgy
Melody by Rabbi Michel Twersky
Sung by Batya Levine
Art by Etai Rogers-Fett

Words:
Modeh/ah ani l'fanecha
Ruach chai v'kayam

Translation:
Thank You, Living God and Spirit
For giving me anoth​er day of awareness​

Modeh Ani - Im Eshkachech by R' Michel Twersky

Sung with chickens at Linke Fligl, 10/1/20
http://linkefligl.com/

Linke Fligl Nigun

Lyrics: Modah Ani, a Jewish daily prayer/practice of gratitude. 
Music by Ary Solomon

Lyrics:
Modah, modah ani
L'fanecha
Ruach chai, ruach chai v'kayam
Ruach chai, ruach chai v'kayam

Modah Ani

Hadar's Rising Song Institute cultivates Jewish spiritual life through song. Through Rising Song Records we produce excellent original Jewish music that is sung and played in communities worldwide.

Karev Yom - Deborah Sacks Mintz

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